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The dissolution of the monasteries, occasionally referred to as the suppression of the monasteries, was the set of administrative and legal processes between 1536 and 1541, by which Henry VIII disbanded Catholic monasteries, priories, convents, and friaries in England, Wales, and Ireland; seized their wealth; disposed of their assets, and provided for their former personnel and functions.
Some monasteries held a scriptorium where monks would write or copy books. The efficiency of Benedict's cenobitic Rule in addition to the stability of the monasteries made them very productive. The monasteries were the central storehouses and producers of knowledge. Vikings started attacking Irish monasteries famous for learning in 793.
The monasteries, being landowners who never died and whose property was therefore never divided among inheritors (as happened to the land of neighboring secular land owners), tended to accumulate and keep considerable lands and properties - which aroused resentment and made them vulnerable to governments confiscating their properties at times of religious or political upheaval, whether to fund ...
Marmion Abbey, a Benedictine monastery located in Aurora. [35] Monastery of the Holy Cross, a Benedictine monastery located in the Bridgeport neighborhood of Chicago. [36] New Gračanica Monastery, an Eastern Orthodox monastery located in Third Lake. [37] Passionist Fathers Monastery, a historic Roman Catholic monastery located in Chicago. [38]
Ss. Mary and Martha Monastery, Wagener, South Carolina. Mother Thekla. Holy Myrrhbearers Monastery, Otego, New York. Mother Raphaela. Our Lady of the Sign Monastery (Nuns of New Skete), Cambridge, New York. Mother Cecelia. New Skete Monasteries; Orthodox Monastery of the Transfiguration, Ellwood City, Pennsylvania. Mother Christophora.
A member of the American-Cassinese Congregation, it is the oldest Benedictine monastery in the United States and the largest in the Western Hemisphere. The shrine is dedicated to Saint Vincent de Paul. Pope Pius XII raised the monastery church to the status of a Minor basilica via his decree Quasi fons lucis on 25 August 1955.
Lists of monasteries cover monasteries, buildings or complexes of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits). The lists are organized by country or territory, by denomination, by order and by form.
A religious order is characterized by an authority structure where a superior general has jurisdiction over the order's dependent communities. An exception is the Order of Saint Benedict which is not a religious order in this technical sense, because it has a system of independent houses, meaning that each abbey is autonomous. However, the ...